TODAY

1. Icebreaker: introducing ourselves.

2. Visual Rhetoric: what’s up with that?

3. So what are we going to be doing?

4. Did someone say Tumblr?5. Activities, activities, activi

ties

Icebreaker

To start today, I want you to complete what is likely to be a familiar sort of icebreaker activity. You will pair up with someone you don’t already know, and over the course of a few minutes you will interview that person.

The info you need to get is on the next slide.

Find out…

1) The person’s name (obviously)2) What he/she goes by (if it’s

different)3) His/her major and progress in the

program.4) Why he/she decided to take Visual

Rhetoric5) His/her favorite logo6) One piece of information that will

help all of us to remember him/her.

Now, then…

…let’s talk more specifically about what we will be doing as a class.

At this point, please either focus on the screen or open the website at http://www.phillalexander.com/vis

That course website, btw, will serve as our activity hub and your syllabus.

Let’s talk about class.

And now, Tumblr

I will show you how to start a Tumblr, so follow along if you’re not familiar with the site.

Please go to http://www.tumblr.com

Once you create your site, please email the URL to me at alexanp3@miamioh.edu

Your First Tumblr

For your first Tumblr post, I want you to give me a skills overview. On the next slide you will find a series of questions. Please answer them as completely and accurately as you can.

Skills Overview

How much experience do you have with:

1) Adobe InDesign? Adobe Photoshop? Dreamweaver?

2) Desktop publishing? 3) Document design– working on a

magazine, newspaper, website, or designing any sort of paperwork?

4) Creating art? If so, what kind?5) Taking photographs? 6) Any visual rhetoric-ish skills you

want me to know you have?

For Next Time

For Thursday:

1) Start the InDesign tutorials described on the syllabus. You have time to complete these, but the sooner, the better.

2) read: Williams non-designers design book Chapters 1,2 & 3

3) Begin work on your first reading response and first design activity

And now…

… let’s finish by talking about community partners and what our major projects for the semester will look like.

And, of course, answer questions.